Flacco has steered the Ravens into the end zone during clutch drives in some big games such as the AFC divisional round win last winter, but Brady and Manning are among the NFL’s all-time leaders in comeback drives.

In an anonymous player survey conducted by ESPN during the season, 128 of the 320 players polled said they wanted Brady, a three-time champion with the New England Patriots, in the final minutes of a Super Bowl. Peyton Manning, whose Denver Broncos play the Seattle Seahawks on Super Sunday, got 86 votes.

I understand why some players would prefer those quarterbacks, also Super Bowl champions, over Flacco. But it was surprising to see that Flacco got just one vote.

During his six years in the NFL, Flacco has led 19 game-winning drives, which ranks 12th among active quarterbacks. He has led two of them in the playoffs, including one in double overtime in that divisional round win in Denver. That drive came after he threw that miracle deep ball to Jacoby Jones in the final minute of regulation.